PROCESS
I’ve always enjoyed making art and am grateful for all the opportunities it has brought into my life. I specialize in being completely unspecialized, which I used to regard as a problem, but have come to recognize as a benefit.
Teeing up some walnut on the bandsaw.
My first experiment with spraying watercolors.
Patina on cold rolled steel with a fir frame.
An early inner frame style with contrasting species.
Prepping the second layer for spray.
The purple is a liquid rubber mask I pour over the film.
Sketching some additional ideas on to the film.
Prepping up my experimental spray system.
Preval jars with watercolor paper bands to indicate the colors within.
Overspray from making the Preval labels.
Salt and vinegar patina with a pass of oil stain.
Liquid rubber mask over some Ponderosa Pines.
Trim frames rusting over with salt and vinegar out in the elements for a week or so.
Just watching the paint dry before removing the mask. Time to get out the hairdryer.
Considering some warm colors right and some cool colors left.
Detail on a Fir corner, patina background and trim frame.
My 8' x 8' workspace (Northwest weather permitting).
Some masking layers and sprayed watercolors, while learning to control capillary action.
First pass at building up a forest.
View from the Hook in Hood River taking shape. (Wells Island in Green)
Considering a sunset, but ultimately decided against it.
Detail on the Hood River Bridge.
Washington State detail.
This is an early sketch on masking film with notes to myself as to fade directions (arrows).
Letting the glue set on this first half of the frame.
Trimming out some of the masking film.
Detail on some foothills and trees in masking film.
Liquid rubber as a mask to allow me to paint the trees black.
Masking tape over the liquid rubber to shield the mountains.
Trees painted black, masking tape removed, time to peel up the liquid rubber.
MIG welding a trim frame.
Waiting for the glue (Lexel) to dry on the trim frame.
Crazy masking job on the power lines at 22nd and May street in Hood River.
About to paint the Columbia river and the sky.
Working towards the hook and Wells Island.
Our skate ramp / climbing wall gets a bit busy sometimes. Sorry kids.
Birch panels prepped for the 'Quintych'.
Making a couple walnut coffee tables with steel legs.
I often work on the ramp with knee pads and a drop cloth. Pretty classy.
A 7' long Columbia River taking shape.
Backdrop for the 'River' frame. The steel will get a salt and vinegar patina then oil finish.
Waiting for the corners to set on the last panel of the 'Quintych'.
Experimental frame style that I did on each of the five elements of the 'Quintych'. Super lightweight.
Masking film on the Black Walnut with a sample texture of gesso with 170 grit sand mixed in.
Base prepped for these Hemlock trees, about to spray dark green.
Mount Hood Express masking job prior to flat black.
Busy workspace on the flat of the skate ramp.
Setting some corners of a rear frame.
Birch panel with Hemlock rear frame where the mounting cable will connect.
Letting the glue set on a 3/8" walnut frame for the Mt Hood from Parkdale image.
The hills of Hood River and Bingen after a first pass of water-based enamel.
Watercolor base on a 7' tall Mt Adams / Forest.
Starting to add in some foothills and forestry elements.
This started out as a study for Mt Adams but turned into a Wedding gift for Ryan & Lauren.
Busy garage now that the kids are back in school.
Just a few more layers of forest and maybe another foothill or two.
My lovely assistant. Home from school with a sore throat today.
Backside of the Hood River Bridge frame.
Dead trees in the Mt Adams forest.
Lower corner of Mt Adams forest.
Framework on the Mt Adams piece.